The “Old Farm”[T] was one that had been for years without a tenant, for its owner feared to lease it lest its old fashioned house and belongings might not suit the new comer, and he would want it changed. At last one was found willing, glad to take it just as it was. One bright October day a business man from the great city, broken down in health, took possession of it with his family. “A year of retirement and rest will restore his vigor and save him for the future,” said the doctor. Very soon the early tastes of the naturalist, for such he had been, awoke, and the days were spent in seeking, gathering and studying specimens of minute animal life, or “the other tenants of the farm,” as he called them. The conversations held regarding them make up the main part of the work. Spiders, moths, bees, wasps, and ants are among those described at length; their history and habits are very accurately given. The blending of the story with the natural history makes an exceedingly interesting book. [N] The Hundred Greatest Men. With Portraits, reproduced from Fine and Rare Steel Engravings. Edited by Wallace Wood, M.D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885. Price, $6.00. [O] The Hallam Succession. A Tale of Methodist Life in Two Countries. By Amelia E. Barr. New York: Phillips & Hunt. 1885. [P] In the Tennessee Mountains. By Charles Egbert Craddock. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Price, $1.25. [Q] Sermons by Bishop Matthew Simpson. New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square. 1885. [R] Oats or Wild-Oats? Common Sense for Young Men. By J. M. Buckley, LL.D. New York: Phillips & Hunt. 1885. Price, $1.50. [S] The Russians at the Gates of Herat. By Charles Marvin. With Maps and Portraits. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Price, 50 cents. [T] Tenants of an Old Farm. By Henry C. McCook, D.D. Illustrated from Nature. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1885. Price, $2.50. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Women of the Reformation. By Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1885. Price, $2.00. Preparation for Reading Xenophon. By James M. Whiton, Ph.D., and Mary B. Whiton, A.B. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1885. Assyriology; Its Use and Abuse. By Francis Brown. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Elias Power, of Ease-in-Zion. By John M. Bamford. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1885. Price, 85c. Wondrous Love. A Collection of Songs and Services for Sunday-schools. By Geo. F. Root and C. C. Case. Cincinnati: The John Church Publishing Co., 74 West Fourth Street. The _Century Magazine_, Vol. XXIX. New Series, Vol. VIII. New York: The Century Co. Composition and Rhetoric. By G. P. Quackenbos, LL.D. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1885. The Spinning Wheel of Tamworth. By the Rev. W. A. Smith. New York: National Temperance Society and Publishing House, 58 Reade Street. 1884. The Secret of Death and Other Poems. By Edwin Arnold. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1885. Price, $1.00.